Software

The UAV flies at up to 60,000 feet and can “loiter” over an interesting location for 23 hours beaming live surveillance information to observers via satellite - the bulbous nose houses the steerable dish antenna that remains locked on the satellite to be used, some of which are in polar orbits and, therefore, in constant “motion " relative to Earth-side locations.

Apparently it was recently added to some mainland China “easy mark” list and was being probed with a new, non-human registration attempt every few minutes.

For example, the number sign or pound character ("#") is pronounced “crunch” and the exclamation point ("!") is a “bang” so “#!/bin/sh” would be read aloud as “crunch bang slash bin slash s h”.

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Cthulhu found in the C programming language!

For an hour, my toes touched bottom no more than for a few fleeting moments and, my ego is relieved to report, I was not alone in the deep end. Repeated blank looks were the only answer to the presenter’s occasional, “Are there any questions?”

The difference is in dealing with the inevitable “Oops!”

Amazon delivered “Drupal for Dummies” - every one of the “Dummies” books I’ve tried have been excellent - and the O’Reilly “Using Drupal” - also a publisher I like very much. The former will blitz me through the basics while the latter will provide the nitty-gritty when I need to go deep.

“Analog computers,” he went on, “are faster, more reliable and have some practical uses besides accounting such as cannon trajectory calculations for battleships. But those digital computers like what we just saw have more than a thousand parts, any of which can break down and render the machine useless. They will never last.”